Thurn v. McAra

Many, if not most, courts in this country, as well as England’s, impose constructive trusts upon property acquired by intestate succession by one who induced a decedent to make no will by expressly or impliedly agreeing to'bold such property for tbe benefit of another and, after death of the deeedent.,intestate, refuses to do so. The. authorities, none fr-ona Michigan, are collected in the classic texts ’ on equity, trusts, and restitution, including among them 4 Pomeroy, Equity Jurisprudence (5th ed, 1941), §§ 1054, 1054c; 1 Scott, Trusts (2d ed, 1956), §§ 55.1, 55.3, 55.9; 1 Restatement…